Football
Eddie Allen
- Title:
- Special Teams Coordinator
- Seasons At RU:
- Eighth Season
- Alma Mater:
- New Haven, 2003
Eddie Allen is in his fifth season back with Rutgers football in 2026 and serves as special teams coordinator. Allen, who was also on staff in Piscataway under head coach Greg Schiano from 2005-07, has helped the Scarlet Knights lead the nation in blocked punts, set field goal records and produce a winner of the Ray Guy Award as part of five bowl appearances.
• In 2025, both PK Jai Patel and P Jakob Anderson earned honorable mention All-Big Ten honors. Rutgers led the nation with three punt return touchdowns, all off blocked punts, and leads the nation with 13 blocked punts since 2022.
• Rutgers won a program-best four Big Ten games in 2024 and picked up seven victories overall in the regular season for the first time in a decade. In the kicking game, Patel matched the program record by making his final 13 field goals of the season and took over possession of the standard at 18 with five more consecutive makes to start 2025. LS Austin Riggs picked up honorable mention All-Big Ten honors.
• In 2023, the Scarlet Knights compiled seven wins for the program’s first winning season since 2014. On special teams, RU scored two game-changing touchdowns off blocked punts in wins over Indiana and Miami, and Patel went 15-of-18 (83.3 percent) on field goals, the most accurate season in program history.
• In 2022, the Scarlet Knights held opponents to minus 11 punt return yards, best in the nation, with just one positive return against in 75 attempts. P Adam Korsak earned the 2022 Ray Guy Award as the nation's best punter, the first on-field national award won by a Rutgers football player in program history, and claimed First Team All-America status.
• Allen spent three seasons as a member of Schiano’s coaching staff at Rutgers from 2005-07, which included three trips to bowl games. He joined the Scarlet Knights’ football program in 2005 as a player development assistant and worked as a graduate assistant in 2007.
• Prior to rejoining Rutgers, Allen served as the special teams coordinator at UConn from 2018-21.
• In his first season with the Huskies in 2018, P Luke Magliozzi set the UConn single season punting record with an average of 42.94 yards per attempt. Magliozzi had 12 punts of over 50 yards and pinned 19 kicks inside the 20.
• Prior to his stint in East Hartford, Allen served as the special teams coordinator at Delaware from 2014-17. In his final season on staff, the Blue Hens tied for the top spot in the Colonial Athletic Association in net punting average with a mark of 38.8. During his time at Delaware, Allen coached two-time All-CAA P Eric Enderson, who earned third team All-America status during the 2014 season. Additionally, he coached P Nick Pritchard to a spot on the All-CAA Third Team during the 2017 season.
• During his first two seasons at Delaware, Allen was also responsible for coaching the tight ends and helped develop All-American Nick Boyle at that position. Boyle was selected by the Baltimore Ravens in the fifth round of the 2015 NFL Draft.
• Allen enjoyed great success during a six-year stint at the University of Rhode Island from 2008-13. During his tenure, he helped the Rams lead the CAA in fewest blocked kicks allowed and rank No. 2 in kickoff return average (22.3) during the 2013 campaign. Rhode Island also ranked No. 3 in the CAA in kickoff returns (20.9) and allowed the second fewest return yards in the league during the 2012 season.
• In 2011, Rhode Island averaged 21.5 yards per kick return while allowing an average of just 18.9 yards per return. In 2010, URI ranked in the CAA’s top five in four special teams categories and held the league’s top kickoff return average (23.8). Among the highlights was a blocked punt that was returned for the game-winning score over 2009 defending champion Villanova. In 2009, P Tim Edger led the CAA in punting with a 41.5 yard average, and in 2008, the Rams blocked nine kicks on the season.
• Allen began his collegiate coaching career as the offensive graduate assistant and video coordinator at Hofstra University in 2003. The following season, Allen moved on to Fort Scott Community College in Fort Scott, Kansas, where he served as wide receivers coach.
• Allen graduated with a bachelor’s degree from the University of New Haven in 2003. He was a four-year letterwinner at quarterback for the Chargers.
Hometown: Somerville, N.J.
Alma Mater: New Haven, 2003
Wife: Kristin
Children: Sons, Austin and Jackson; Daughters, Brooklyn and Makayla
2025-present: Rutgers (special teams coordinator)
2024: Rutgers (assistant special teams)
2023: Rutgers (quality control)
2022: Rutgers (special teams assistant)
2018-21: Connecticut (special teams coordinator)
2016-17: Delaware (special teams coordinator)
2014-15: Delaware (special teams coordinator/tight ends)
2008-13: Rhode Island (special teams coordinator/running backs)
2007: Rutgers (graduate assistant)
2005-06: Rutgers (player development assistant)
2004: Fort Scott Community College (wide receivers)
2003: Hofstra (offensive graduate assistant/video coordinator)
| RUTGERS |
• Rutgers won a program-best four Big Ten games in 2024 and picked up seven victories overall in the regular season for the first time in a decade. In the kicking game, Patel matched the program record by making his final 13 field goals of the season and took over possession of the standard at 18 with five more consecutive makes to start 2025. LS Austin Riggs picked up honorable mention All-Big Ten honors.
• In 2023, the Scarlet Knights compiled seven wins for the program’s first winning season since 2014. On special teams, RU scored two game-changing touchdowns off blocked punts in wins over Indiana and Miami, and Patel went 15-of-18 (83.3 percent) on field goals, the most accurate season in program history.
• In 2022, the Scarlet Knights held opponents to minus 11 punt return yards, best in the nation, with just one positive return against in 75 attempts. P Adam Korsak earned the 2022 Ray Guy Award as the nation's best punter, the first on-field national award won by a Rutgers football player in program history, and claimed First Team All-America status.
• Allen spent three seasons as a member of Schiano’s coaching staff at Rutgers from 2005-07, which included three trips to bowl games. He joined the Scarlet Knights’ football program in 2005 as a player development assistant and worked as a graduate assistant in 2007.
| PREVIOUS EXPERIENCE |
• In his first season with the Huskies in 2018, P Luke Magliozzi set the UConn single season punting record with an average of 42.94 yards per attempt. Magliozzi had 12 punts of over 50 yards and pinned 19 kicks inside the 20.
• Prior to his stint in East Hartford, Allen served as the special teams coordinator at Delaware from 2014-17. In his final season on staff, the Blue Hens tied for the top spot in the Colonial Athletic Association in net punting average with a mark of 38.8. During his time at Delaware, Allen coached two-time All-CAA P Eric Enderson, who earned third team All-America status during the 2014 season. Additionally, he coached P Nick Pritchard to a spot on the All-CAA Third Team during the 2017 season.
• During his first two seasons at Delaware, Allen was also responsible for coaching the tight ends and helped develop All-American Nick Boyle at that position. Boyle was selected by the Baltimore Ravens in the fifth round of the 2015 NFL Draft.
• Allen enjoyed great success during a six-year stint at the University of Rhode Island from 2008-13. During his tenure, he helped the Rams lead the CAA in fewest blocked kicks allowed and rank No. 2 in kickoff return average (22.3) during the 2013 campaign. Rhode Island also ranked No. 3 in the CAA in kickoff returns (20.9) and allowed the second fewest return yards in the league during the 2012 season.
• In 2011, Rhode Island averaged 21.5 yards per kick return while allowing an average of just 18.9 yards per return. In 2010, URI ranked in the CAA’s top five in four special teams categories and held the league’s top kickoff return average (23.8). Among the highlights was a blocked punt that was returned for the game-winning score over 2009 defending champion Villanova. In 2009, P Tim Edger led the CAA in punting with a 41.5 yard average, and in 2008, the Rams blocked nine kicks on the season.
• Allen began his collegiate coaching career as the offensive graduate assistant and video coordinator at Hofstra University in 2003. The following season, Allen moved on to Fort Scott Community College in Fort Scott, Kansas, where he served as wide receivers coach.
| PLAYING EXPERIENCE |
| PERSONAL |
Alma Mater: New Haven, 2003
Wife: Kristin
Children: Sons, Austin and Jackson; Daughters, Brooklyn and Makayla
| COACHING HISTORY |
2024: Rutgers (assistant special teams)
2023: Rutgers (quality control)
2022: Rutgers (special teams assistant)
2018-21: Connecticut (special teams coordinator)
2016-17: Delaware (special teams coordinator)
2014-15: Delaware (special teams coordinator/tight ends)
2008-13: Rhode Island (special teams coordinator/running backs)
2007: Rutgers (graduate assistant)
2005-06: Rutgers (player development assistant)
2004: Fort Scott Community College (wide receivers)
2003: Hofstra (offensive graduate assistant/video coordinator)
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